CONTROL PROCESS
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Cause-and-Effect Analysis
| What: | Determining the sources of a problem situation. | |
| When: | Throughout a project. | |
| Results: | Identified root causes for current or potential project trouble. |
Identify Sources of Trouble
Cause-and-effect analysis is applied in a wide range of situations, such as:
- Issue management
- Project variance analysis
- Schedule control
- Cost control
- Scope change control
- Performance problem resolution
- Risk response planning
- Process improvement
- Creative problem-solving
- Failure diagnosis, quality assurance, and quality control
There are many names for essentially similar processes, including root cause analysis, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), “fishbone diagrams,” and Ishikawa charts (named ...
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